His research interests are machine learning, knowledge acquisition and machine translation . He received the Best Paper Award of the ninth annual conference of the Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence in 1995, and the CV Ramamoorthy Best Paper Award of the Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence in 2000. He is a member of the IPSJ (the Information Processing Society of Japan), and the ANLP (the Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan). From April 1999 to March 2001, he was a member of the editorial board of IPSJ magazine.
Yasuhiro Akiba